Enhancing the value of death registration with verbal autopsy data: a pilot study in the Senegalese urban population in 2019

Table 3 Cause-specific mortality fractions (%) among neonates (n=134), Dakar pilot study, 2019

	Total	Boys	Girls
Prematurity	54.8	55.8	53.5
Birth asphyxia and birth trauma	24.2	23.4	25.2
Congenital anomalies	10.4	11.7	8.8
Neonatal sepsis	5.2	5.2	5.2
Other causes	3.0	2.6	3.5
Undertermined	2.4	1.3	3.8
Number of deaths	134	77	57

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